Themis, The Flower of Justice
Chapter 26 — Magic Knights (3)

“What?! The Princess wants to practice a match with me?!”

Scott was surprised by the request that Luminas had just made.

Although Luminas had often asked Scott to train himself, he also often practiced matchmaking with ordinary knights in this training ground. But only this time he heard Luminas ask to practice a match with him.

“Yes, Captain Scott. I heard that you are the best aura knight residing in this residence at the moment,”

Scott shuddered when he heard the current word from Luminas. He was a little offended because he was the best at this residence since almost all the knights here went with Selena.

“If you want to practice a match with me, at least you defeat the other aura Knights first,”

Scott said it in a slightly upsetting, yet still polite tone.

He then pointed to one of the people who was training in the middle of the training ground and told him to come to him.

“Mr Princess, if you want to practice a match with me, try to fight this guy first,”

“What?! But captain, why should—“

“Be quiet, it's an honor to practice a match with the Princess, you know?”

Scott closed his mouth tightly to the knight he had dragged here.

“Y-yes Captain! An honor to me, Princess!”

The knight lowered his body 180°, he was quite surprised by the presence of Luminas as he was dragged here without knowing it.

“So Princess, you have to fight this boy. Two years ago he broke through to the middle-tier Aura Knight at the age of 25. I'm sure in a few more years this boy is already waving me,”

Scott rubbed the knight's head as if he were his own brother.

“So, Princess. Do you still want to fight it?”

Scott asked politely, asking only out of concern for Luminas.

“Hmm? Sure was! It's pretty impressive to see Scott admit you. Do you want to be my opponent?”

Luminas was quite interested in the knight, and wanted to try to fight him.

“Yes, Princess! According to your order!”

“Then, what's your name?”

“My name is Arga, Princess!”

“Then, let's directly practice match,”

“An honor for me, Princess!”

After they had all finished talking, Scott asked them to leave and vacate the training ground. He wanted to give Luminas a wide fighting ground so that he could move freely.

When they were told to get out of the way by Scott, they gathered at the edge of the training ground and formed a circle. Not only the knights who trained there, but the knights who were not on guard and the servants went around where Luminas would practice the match.

Scott glanced at Luminas who was standing in the middle of the field while facing Arga, he seemed to be smiling widely and full of confidence.

He was quite astonished as to why Luminas could perform with such confidence after he wore it with a most potential knight in this residence.

He introduced her to Arga to make Luminas feel like they don't want to fight anymore. Scott signaled to Luminas that fighting with the aura knight was still too early for him.

After that, Scott then stood in the middle of the two of them facing each other. He stretched out his hands to signal the two of them.

“Are you guys ready?”

On the question from Scott, the two nodded as a sign of approval.

“Available, ready,”

Scott started to stay away from them both.

“AND START!!”

When the marks started to be given Scott, the two of them immediately shot forward.

‘I have to end this fight as soon as possible without getting the Princess hurt,'

*BRAK!!

Their two swords clashed and created a loud sound. Arga was a little surprised because Luminas was not pushed in the slightest even though Arga used a lot of his strength.

Although surprised, he was quickly able to restore his calm. Arga aggressively began attacking Luminas. He swung his wooden sword against Luminas to break its defenses.

Plagued with attacks by Arga, Luminas was pushed back bit by bit.

‘Good!!’

Arga was delighted to see Luminas struggling in response to his attack. Although this was a little beyond his expectations, but this still went according to his wishes.

Arga actually greatly admired Luminas, although with such a small body he was able to cope with Arga's attacks.

As everyone knows, the physique of a Knight's aura is different from the physique of a normal Knight. So that being able to withstand an attack from Arga was one of the extraordinary physical talents possessed by Luminas.

Scott looked at the desperate Luminas and thought that this match was coming to an end, not just Scott but everyone watching the match thought so. They thought that Luminas did not have enough ability to deal with Arga at the moment.

‘It's over..’.

Scott understood that the opponent Luminas fought this time around was quite heavy, as Scott had never seen Luminas train with the aura knight before.

Although Luminas was extremely talented, but the one against him was a medium-level aura knight. With his still small body, even Luminas would have a hard time fighting low-level aura Knights or ordinary knights.

‘Even can defend against Arga... You are indeed outstanding Mr. Princess.’.

But there's one thing that Scott and everyone else don't know.

Luminas is now a magic knight. He already had his aura and his physique had changed.

Luminas saw Arga continue to attack him to end this match. He began to appear to have lost his focus, he now underestimated Luminas.

A sneaky smile slanted thinly on his lips. After continuing to hang on and looking for an opportunity for Arga to let his guard down, Luminas finally found a moment.

Arga who was busy looking for a way to end the game, he finally found a gap. Luminas at that moment looked weak and the sword he was holding in his hand had loosened, Arga thought that Luminas was tired and his hands were sore when receiving constant attacks. Without further ado, he immediately took the opportunity to attack.

He swung his sword firmly straight in a vertical line.

*BUGH!

Luminas drooped backwards when it received a powerful attack from Arga. Seeing Luminas whose defense has been open and full of gaps, Arga intends to immediately end this match. Without further ado he directly attacked the already helpless Luminas. But—

“!!!”

Arga was surprised when a strong enough wind pushed his arm from below so that his hand was raised up and exposed a considerable gap.

Arga was confused by what had just happened. He wondered how the wind might have appeared, he did not know when Luminas was muttering a spell.

However he felt quite calm looking at the distance himself with Luminas. With such a distance, there was no way Luminas could move that fast here. He felt that there was still enough time to defend even if Luminas attacked him with a spell. But —

“”[Wind Step]””

*WUSSSS

In an instant Luminas was in front of Arga. He was flowing aura throughout his body in order to move faster, even he used wind spells to lighten his pace so that the current Luminas speed was truly amazingly fast.

*BUGGHH

An attack landed on Arga's stomach. Without having a chance to respond, Arga was hit by a crushing attack and spewed something from his mouth. Arga did not even realize that Luminas had moved closer.

Luminas also flowed an aura into his sword so that his attack was powerful enough to make a mid-level aura knight faint.

The match ended in an instant, everyone who was watching the match stared at Luminas with wide eyes and could not keep their mouths shut.

For a while, the atmosphere at the training ground became silent. Even Scott, who saw this, was shocked and did not know what had happened.

“”WAAAAHHH!!!!””

They all exclaimed loudly after coming to a realization from their shock. They were all cheering over Luminas who stood in the arena last time and became the victor in the fight.

“You were great, but unfortunately out of guard, you lost,”

Luminas praised his opponent, Arga. Luminas felt that the fight this time was quite easy because his opponent underestimated him. Had the two of them fought at full strength from the start, this fight would not have ended so easily.

Luminas learns to keep his opponent off guard from Selena. He still remembers when he was deceived by his mother, and lost helpless because his mother used magic suddenly. After the incident, Luminas learns that it would be better to fight while hiding his cards as much as possible.

‘Well, even if we fight with all our might, I can still win,'

Luminas thought so and raised his nose high. It seemed that not only had he learned how to fight from Selena, he was currently even emulating his confidence. Today Luminas looks more and more like her mother.

Luminas glanced at Scott who looked still in disbelief at the sight before him. He flinched as soon as Luminas looked at him with a defiant gaze.

‘I still don't understand what's going on in front of me... What exactly is that? How could the Princess move so fast? Can he use aura? No, it was impossible to move at such speed when it was still just becoming a knight aura.’.

Scott estimated that Luminas being a knight of aura was recent, as a few days ago he still saw Luminas practicing the sword on the training ground along with Dorothy as well as himself.

‘But can he become an aura knight that fast? Only about 4 days? I even trained and dedicated myself for so many years just to become a low-level aura knight!’

At that time, Scott did not know that Luminas became a magic knight whose level was more difficult than ordinary aura knights in just two days.

‘... Or is he using magic? What kind of magic moved that fast and got him in front of Arga in an instant? Does Your Majesty teach you special magic? And again, I've been watching the Princess ever since, and I've never seen her cast a spell!’

Many questions swirled in Scott's mind at once. But even after thinking deeply about it, he could not think of the answers to those questions. He had never even seen anything like it on the battlefield.

‘It is possible if the person is a peak-level aura knight, but the Princess is still.’.

“Captain Scott..”

As he was deep in thought, the voice from Luminas pulled himself back into reality. He was not aware of the arrival of Luminas who approached him because he was too focused in thinking.

“Yes, Princess. By the way, you're really great. I don't even know what's going on exactly,”

Scott congratulated Luminas, bowing his head because as a subordinate he underestimated Luminas too much by making him feel like giving up. But Luminas ended the fight brilliantly. He is able to break all the prejudices that lead to him.

“There's no need to be embarrassed, Captain Scott. I just want to collect your promise,”

“My appointment?”

Scott was confused by the statement from Luminas.

“Yes, wouldn't if I won against Arga, I could go straight against you?”

“!!!!”

Scott was surprised by what Luminas said. He did not expect that after fighting with Arga he still asked for a fight against him.

Scott was stunned for a moment and did not answer Luminas.

He took a deep breath and exhaled it to restore his calm.

“Mr Princess, you have fought with Arga. Are you sure you want to fight with me again?”

“Sure, why not?”

“But apart from being exhausted, I have also learned the secret of the Princess who is an aura knight as well. Of course the trick you did on Arga will no longer apply to me,”

Scott expressed his feelings honestly, saying so not to mock Luminas, but because he did not want to hurt Luminas.

Hearing the statement from Scott, Luminas sighed. He knows Scott's current attitude on the basis of his concern for Luminas. But he also wants to fight Scott and test the extent of his abilities.

“Listen to me, Captain Scott. Although Arga knows my true abilities, the results will not change,”

Luminas approached Scott and said it in a confident tone.

Scott was stunned when he saw such a Luminas. The attitude that Luminas displayed was not arrogance, but a confident confidence based on the strength of his own. Scott had seen something like that in his life, it was when he saw Selena for the first time.

When he met Selena on the battlefield while still an ordinary soldier, Scott wondered why Selena could say something that believed she would win. At first he felt doubtful and thought Selena was very arrogant. But as he advanced straight into the battlefield, all of his words were evidenced when he began to show his strength.

At that time Scott thought, that it was not a baseless arrogance, but a confidence that was very confident in the strength he had. From then on, Scott trained very hard in order to be recognized by Selena and join her Knight Order.

‘... She is very similar to her mother.’.

As Scott thought of Luminas which was very similar to Selena, he smiled warmly.

Scott then slightly lowered his head and put his hands together.

“Please for guidance, Princess,”

“I too, Mr Scott,”

Luminas was overjoyed when a great knight like Scott accepted his challenge.

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